On 11/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steven Adeff</b> <<a href="mailto:adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com">adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 11/20/06, Michael Tiller <<a href="mailto:michael.tiller@gmail.com">michael.tiller@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> 1) I assume MythTV has no trouble downscaling the HDTV content?<br><br>yups, but that doesn't lower the playback requirements.
</blockquote><div><br>Great. I've got a 2.4 GHz CPU (can't remember the details). Hopefully that will be enough. I'm looking into XvMC right now too. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> 2) Keeping the HD recordings seems like a lot of space...what are my options<br>> for transcoding it?<br><br>currently you can resize the video, but the audio gets converted as<br>well, kind of a pain if you want the AC3 audio.
</blockquote><div><br>I don't care for now. I just have a crappy NTSC TV (no surround sound). I've got XBMC running downstairs on a nice DLP projector but there I have the opposite problem (enough TV, not enough CPU :-).
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> 4) Is any of this worth it? Honestly, I thought some of SD streams looked
<br>> like crap so it seems like it would be worth it.<br><br>Recording in HD for playback on an NTSC is definitely worth it, as<br>even downscaled the quality will be closer to "DVD" than to the<br>original NTSC broadcast (which are, well, garbage.).
</blockquote><div><br>Excellent. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Of course, it will make you want an HDTV...</blockquote>
<div><br>Too late. But will it make my wife want one. :-)<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">--<br>Steve</blockquote>
<div><br>--<br>Mike<br> <br></div><br></div>